James T. Kirk
Character » James T. Kirk appears in 1198 issues.
James Tiberius Kirk became the youngest Captain in the United Federation of Planets' Starfleet, at 31, and is best known for his maverick command of the U.S.S. Enterprise, saving the Earth on two publicly-recognized occasions in 2271 and 2286, and his involvement in a record 17 temporal anomalies.
Comparison of timelines...
2233: James Kirk is born.
2245: The USS Enterprise launches, commanded by Captain Robert April.
2246: The Tarsus IV/Kodos the executioner incident with James Kirk.
2250: James Kirk enrolls in Starfleet Academy.
2251: Captain Christopher Pike takes command of the USS Enterprise.
2253: Ensign Kirk comes aboard the USS Republic.
2254: James Kirk becomes first officer aboard the USS Farragut; the USS Enterprise encounters trouble on Talos IV.
2265: Christopher Pike is promoted to Fleet Captain; Captain James Kirk takes command of the USS Enteprise
2266: Fleet Captain Pike is injured by delta ray radiation in a training exercise aboard a J-Class training vessel and is taken back to Talos IV by the USS Enterprise to live out the rest of his life.
New timeline:
2233: The Narada destroys the USS Kelvin; James Kirk is born.
2255: James Kirk enrolls in Starfleet Academy.
2258: The USS Enterprise launches, commanded by Captain Christopher Pike; James Kirk becomes First Officer; the Narada is destroyed; Christopher Pike is promoted to Rear Admiral; James Kirk becomes Captain.
So now Kirk is REALLY the youngest Captain in the history of the fleet. 25?! I mean, he already was when he took command in the original timeline, but his record was beaten later.
I would presume that because of the Narada, it causes Starfleet to "advance" their ships more, which accounts for the Enterprise being better and coming out seven years later than it originally should have. Also, Kirk goes through a rebelling stage in Earth 1 that he didn't go through in Earth Prime.
and here's a comparison of the old Enterprise - A compared to the new one...
Heck, that's substantially larger than the D or E. Quite the leap there, all caused by that one starship getting destroyed?
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I love the new versions of ships like The Kelvin and The Enterprise in the timeline that Nero (though it was Spock Prime who set the events in motion for this new reality to come about) has given birth to. I mean LOOK at these ships! They are beautiful! I wonder if The Kelvin was ever rebuilt...they never stated in the Movie whether a USS Kelvin-A or something like that was commissioned and built. Also...I was shocked when I found out that the Narada (Nero's ship from the 24th Century of Earth-Prime, yes...I am going to call the original Star Trek Universe Earth-Prime just like I am going to call Old Spock by the name Spock Prime and Superboy-Prime by...wait...he's from a different Earth-Prime...oops) was actually just a Mining Vessel and not the standard uber-powerful mega-planet buster Death Star-wannabes we see in a lot of Science Fiction Tales. I mean sure they turned it into a Planet Buster but in the end The Narada was always a Romulan Mining Vessel through and through and I love that concept. It's like turning a fork into a laser gun. You take something that wasn't meant to be what you've turned it into and it works perfectly!
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